The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-05-27
VOL 2.
TIE WEEKLY ROUNDUP.

A $4,000 Court House will be built
at Hot Springs.
Copious rains continue TO visit Fall
River county.
The Spring roundup is under pro-
gression in this section.
.Stockmen report tho grass on the
range as being unusually luxuriant.
The Jasper 6 Marble Co. will soon
commence operations on their prop
erty.
Two of Mr.. Thomas Binsham's
children have been quite sick during
the past week.
Payments on last years subscription
and also on TIC new, are still received
at the STAR Office.
The graders will commence work on
the extension OF the Elkhorn Valley r.
r., north of Rapid City, in about a
week.
The increase in the population of
Fall River County during the last year
can only be accounted for by the health
full climate and prolific resources of the
country.
Dist. Atty Norton informs us that
reqaisition has Iecn received from
the Governor for the return OF Clifford
Smith, from Lincoln, Ncb., the all
legged beef expert.
We sec an article in one Of our cx-
changes for the organization of an
Anti Poverty Association. We hope
the organization will he Effected, as we
should like to become an honorary
member OF the society.
We were presented with bunch of
fine radislies from the garden Of Mr..
Dennis, which was both a rarity and a
delicious treat. Mr.. Denis informs us
that he will very shortly be prepared
10 supply The market with all the ear
ly garden luxarics.
A surplus bundle of fossiiized ideas
was carelassly left around loose on
election day. and a great amount of
valuable chin music wasted upon the
desert air. The anti-prcgrcssiye ele-
nent was ont with its war paint
aid immigration pulyerizcrs.
Three negro aescrtcrs were arrested
at Buffalo Gap last Wednesday and
taken to Fort Meade by slierif? Boyd,
of Pennington county, and Sergeant
Conner. An epidemic Of dcsertion
seems to be prevailing among the
'colorsd gentlemen at Fort Meade.
over thirty having "yamoosea" within
tie past Two weeks.
Hot IIprings is beginning to show
signs Of returning activity. and as the
season advances her population will
doubtless be steadily increased by liea'tl,
aud pleasure seekers from abroad. The
curative properties of the waters OF
that primitive sanitarinn are becoln.
| ing letter understood, and its merits
must eventually make it one OF ;hs
most popular health resorts in this
country.-Custer Ch;puicle.
\ There is a calm for those who weon
a rest from weary gloom, a spot with
in the banana-belt, where all is pusl
and boom; we ask the weary tender
| foot, to pause esstwhile and rest, an.
gaze upon Dakota scenes. the fairest i,
| the west: .lle etfete east are welcome
to view our landscape DER, but if the,
| do. the bueaboo of fraud we'll hear n,
moro: the star OF empire takes its way
TO regions in the west. place wl,er
booms are in the air, where enterprise
Is blcst.--LoREATs
The four-horse team attached to th
Hot Springs stage coach took IA MOTTO,
| to have a little run on Monday morn
Ing last and lit out in good shape. .bn
were captured at the corner Of Alail
and Second streets by Messrs. Lovet
and Bastion, who. after being wake,
on and tossed about in promiscuou
manner for a minute or two. got TIL
horses under control. Nodamage wa
done TO the coach or horses, but M,
Bastion is about minus pair g
trowsers. while Marshal Lovett no,
languishes on his bed with spraine
knee and ankle. Nothing like bein
brave.-Butfalo Gap News.
Frcnchy and Glover Bill, who wcr
brought back from Miles City on til
charge of horse stealing, were boun
over and held in the custody of til
sheriff in defaulto Of bail. and were co,
fined at the residence of the deput
: sheriff. They were hand-cuffed an
= chained to the wall, but OH Sunda
v morning about 2 A. H., they succecde
y in relieving themselves of their brac,
y lets and slid out without saying goo,
by to the sheriff: they took to tl
the mountain east of town but in co,
sequence of the rain and darkness, d
;. not succeed in making headway, ar
one Of them finally become bewildert
;. and lost and was captured few mil
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